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NTRabbit posted:According to some replies I read they did move it - to another set of revetments 1km away, then they moved it back again, because it just alternated between the two sites so the crews wouldn't have to dig more holes and banks When I was stationed on a sub i used to hear leadership crowing about how we were ~the most professional fighting force in the world~ and then look at myself and the rest of the crew, and think to myself "theres no loving way that other militaries are this full of goofball kids who seem to be in stupid mode 24/7" holy gently caress was i wrong lmao
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Sep 14, 2023 14:49
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kemikalkadet posted:Yeah the holiday snaps are funny but don’t really reveal any top secret info. There are publicly available satellite images that update every 2 days that easily show the position of AA installations, let alone the secret mil satellites that will give much better pictures. There’s almost certainly a ton of intelligence guys poring over and tracking that stuff daily. Sure, but it's much more difficult to arrest a satellite and force it to give a videotaped confession/apology to air on state TV.
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Sep 14, 2023 14:50
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How replaceable are these Russian anti-air systems? I want to get some context on how significant a hit this is. How many of them do they have and how long does it take to manufacture one?
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Sep 14, 2023 14:56
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Captain Fargle posted:How replaceable are these Russian anti-air systems? I want to get some context on how significant a hit this is. How many of them do they have and how long does it take to manufacture one? If you can believe open sources, they have something like 50 full S-400 systems (radars, command post, etc) and hundreds of launchers.
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Sep 14, 2023 15:00
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ought ten posted:If you can believe open sources, they have something like 50 full S-400 systems (radars, command post, etc) and hundreds of launchers. Well, 48 now 
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Sep 14, 2023 15:08
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Captain Fargle posted:How replaceable are these Russian anti-air systems? I want to get some context on how significant a hit this is. How many of them do they have and how long does it take to manufacture one? I doubt anyone really knows minus Russian engineers. No one knows really to what extent the parts are in the sanctions list minus, again, Russian engineers. Either way, it's going to be difficult to knock up one from scratch on fast track.
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Sep 14, 2023 15:10
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Captain Fargle posted:How replaceable are these Russian anti-air systems? I want to get some context on how significant a hit this is. How many of them do they have and how long does it take to manufacture one? S-400s are good enough that Turkey ordered a system a while back and it pissed off NATO so much that the US withheld the possibility of sending F-35s to Turkey because the S-400 would pick up too much information that would then almost certainly backdoor back to Russia on the F-35's capabilities The loss of a full system is a big blow to Russia and they've lost two in recent fighting I believe. The launchers are more numerous than the C&C
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Sep 14, 2023 15:21
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Is it cost effective to use an S400 to shoot down quad copters Asking for a MoD friend
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Sep 14, 2023 15:36
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Captain Fargle posted:How replaceable are these Russian anti-air systems? I want to get some context on how significant a hit this is. How many of them do they have and how long does it take to manufacture one?   Depends. The growler launchers would be relatively easy to replace, because they're mostly ammo and truck. The radar pictured is probably Cheeseboard radar fire control, which is relatively old and a holdover from the S300 system. They're still pretty good, but Russia would have still have a decent amount* laying around. If they were the Gravestone, Russia's latest and greatest, replacing those would be difficult. *   probably being used as a generator for a dacha
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Sep 14, 2023 15:37
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Vampire Panties posted:
Now THAT'S what you use the tungsten ball rockets for.
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Sep 14, 2023 15:40
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None of them are in HIMARs reach probably
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Sep 14, 2023 15:42
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Drakens are way cooler. They really need some love.
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Sep 14, 2023 15:49
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Mushika posted:Drakens are way cooler. They really need some love. I got to see/hear a Viggen up pretty close this year - it was v. small and extremely loud
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Sep 14, 2023 15:50
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Mushika posted:Drakens are way cooler. They really need some love. There’s, like, 2 airworthy Drakens in the world, not really gonna help Ukraine.
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Sep 14, 2023 16:00
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Pookah posted:I got to see/hear a Viggen up pretty close this year - it was v. small and extremely loud Yes, the predecessor Draken wasn't a quiet one either; I used to live next to an airfield and during an airshow in the early 2000's you could tell the F/A-18 Hornet and Saab J35 Draken apart by a simple rule that when Hornet flew over the building the windows would shake and when Draken flew over the building would shake. It is unbelievably noisy thing for a single engine plane from the 50's.
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Sep 14, 2023 16:00
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Jonny Nox posted:There’s, like, 2 airworthy Drakens in the world, not really gonna help Ukraine. Well, dang. I guess I'm not exactly a very good tactician. Or strategician. Or whatever. What I'm saying is, I'm not good at this. Only 2? e: My other favorite aircraft is the American F-100, so obviously I have a penchant for outdated aircraft Mushika fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Sep 14, 2023 |
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Sep 14, 2023 16:15
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https://twitter.com/secretsqrl123/status/1702131188305994183#mquote:from telegram....
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Sep 14, 2023 16:16
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Soylov was extremely depressed yesterday. Like visibly looked as if the world was ending. Very very different from his normal "the western Nazis will be destroyed!!!!!!!"
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Sep 14, 2023 16:18
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Mushika posted:Only 2? That thing is almost 70 years old
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Sep 14, 2023 16:23
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Regularly watered with selected slops is quite a loving phrase lol And whoever said the air defense systems are out of HIMARS range is right. S-300 and S-400 systems both outrange the HIMARS missiles being supplied to Ukraine. It would be kickin rad if we gave them the 300km variant but welp
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Sep 14, 2023 16:25
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MrQwerty posted:That thing is almost 70 years old Yeah, I know. Hence, needs some love. e: Don't make me post lemon party
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Sep 14, 2023 16:25
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Hanna Maliar is prone to jump the gun sometimes. https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1702327760587481097?s=20
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Sep 14, 2023 16:35
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grumplestiltzkin posted:When I was stationed on a sub i used to hear leadership crowing about how we were ~the most professional fighting force in the world~ and then look at myself and the rest of the crew, and think to myself "theres no loving way that other militaries are this full of goofball kids who seem to be in stupid mode 24/7" A sgt goon in GIP thought US marines were so stupid they were a liability because they kept eating c4 and hospitalising themselves, until he saw an insurgent build an IED and then attempt to test it by jumping on the pressure plate. Then he realised every military is full of absolute brain dead dipshits.
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Sep 14, 2023 16:43
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Drone_Fragger posted:A sgt goon in GIP thought US marines were so stupid they were a liability because they kept eating c4 and hospitalising themselves, until he saw an insurgent build an IED and then attempt to test it by jumping on the pressure plate. Then he realised every military is full of absolute brain dead dipshits. Lol
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Sep 14, 2023 16:44
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1702313766107443450#m It seems POCCNR can only produce 30 lawnmower drones a month even under their present desperate circumstances. The majority of drones being used are still given out by Iran, it seems.
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Sep 14, 2023 16:58
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Drone_Fragger posted:A sgt goon in GIP thought US marines were so stupid they were a liability because they kept eating c4 and hospitalising themselves, until he saw an insurgent build an IED and then attempt to test it by jumping on the pressure plate. Then he realised every military is full of absolute brain dead dipshits. I wonder what happened with that Marine in the "Chopstick and Neosporin" incident that got posted in GiP a while back...
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Sep 14, 2023 17:11
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Nog posted:Every now and then, one of my Soldiers does something so mindblowingly stupid that I feel like stabbing them in the face. Sometimes, the poo poo they do is so stupid that I don't really know how we can possibly fight and win wars with guys like this on our side. Thanks to ISR though, I've come to discover an important fact: For every blithering idiot that pollutes our ranks, our enemy has blithering idiots in equal proportion.
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Sep 14, 2023 17:13
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 Wonder if anything will happen to him. Also Grubnik is great name.
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Sep 14, 2023 17:13
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Is it cost effective to use an S400 to shoot down quad copters Real answer; yes, because if the drone is not shot down it will mission-kill a billion dollar submarine.
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Sep 14, 2023 17:14
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RBA-Wintrow posted:Real answer; yes, because if the drone is not shot down it will mission-kill a billion dollar submarine. This! A good rule of thumb for cost effectiveness is not the cost of munitions vs cost of what it shot down but the cost of what not shooting it down will incur.
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Sep 14, 2023 17:24
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:xi's reportedly making GBS threads his pants in support of those poor kids the ukronazis murdered xi is... also... making GBS threads......????????
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Sep 14, 2023 17:29
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mllaneza posted:None of that functions well after getting some titanium BBs punching holes in it.
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Sep 14, 2023 17:35
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All these Russian disses sound so cultured and haughty. Is that just the russophone diss voice, translation artifact, or did I just grow up people with Russian speech habits lol.
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Sep 14, 2023 17:39
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Karate Bastard posted:xi is... also... making GBS threads......???????? xitting
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Sep 14, 2023 17:40
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Karate Bastard posted:xi is... also... making GBS threads......????????
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Sep 14, 2023 17:41
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I was going to ask a similar thing on Russian translation. Is it the nature of the language, the actual tone of the speaker, or some sort of prejudiced cold war ism on the part of western translators? Everything has such wild swings between posh dismissiveness, drunk alex jones, intellectualism, and ranting maniac "It is important to remember to show respect, all considered, for our brave fellows loving poo poo up on the front lines because any day now a messenger lad will ride in from the nuclear silos..." E: all of this needs to be spoken by a guy who looks like an 00s male porn star now in his late 60s Strategic Tea fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Sep 14, 2023 |
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Sep 14, 2023 17:46
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Strategic Tea posted:I was going to ask a similar thing on Russian translation. Is it the nature of the language, the actual tone of the speaker, or some sort of prejudiced cold war ism on the part of western translators?
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Sep 14, 2023 17:51
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The thing to understand about Russian is that a lot of the translations are wonky because of the extensive use of mat. Mat is a sublanguage made up of pretty much nothing but cursing. There are at least 37* different meanings for "gently caress your mother" (yob tvoyu mat) that are dependent on tone, context, etc. It could mean anything from "This surprised me" to "That's excellent" to "Literally gently caress your mother" (this will get you beaten). A good mat speaker - something pretty much only native speakers can converse fluently in - looks like that mishmash of florid prose and raw vulgarity. Fun fact: mat is legally regulated by Roskomnadzor, the government agency responsible for censoring and blocking the internet in Russia *slightly exaggerating but not by much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_(Russian_profanity) Also, lmao two more boats got hit https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1702358441719664675?s=20
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Sep 14, 2023 17:56
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:xitting No, that’s Elon
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they arent putting mat on the television news tho are they
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